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.
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.