In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

There isn't anything else like this in academia.

The fate of the young man in his headphones, who faced a jail cell that very night, did not seem such a world away from his own predicament: an anniversary party full of academics.

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?