Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? -- not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.