Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. – Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges. – Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. – Louis J. Helle, Jr., Spring in Washington
