"The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue."

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."

"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."

"A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul."

"The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane."

"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."

"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."