“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”

“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.”

“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”

“The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.”