So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God