Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with read more

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.

The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

If you love something let it go, and if it comes back - that doesn't mean a damn thing; it read more

If you love something let it go, and if it comes back - that doesn't mean a damn thing; it can just leave you again later.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a read more

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.