Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities, and a disgust for cheapjacks. We ought to smell, as it were, the difference of quality in men and their proposals when we enter the world of affairs about us.

So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical eq…

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdain - under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

It goes without saying that the most valuable asset of any profession is its collective reputation.