"I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs."

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

"If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous."

"I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education."

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

"One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day.""

"What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books."