Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
