The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.