“The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.”

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”

“You educate a man; you educate a Man. You educate a woman; you educate a Generation. ”

“The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.”

“…when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as “a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows”, he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.”

“I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.”

“Here was a man who could not spell, and did not care to read — who had the habits and the cunning of a boor: whose aim in life was pettifogging: who never had a taste, or emotion, or enjoyment, but was sordid and soil; and yet he had rank, and honors, and power, somehow: and was dignitary of the land, and a pillar of the state.”

“The wise man has always treated religions with respect, not adoration nor blind following alone. He's more logical rather than emotional.”

“The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything…”

“The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be from anything that is noble and good, true and upright, in art or science, in culture or education; the more joyfully will he applaud whenever he sees truth and justice and peace and the ennoblement of man prevail and become dominant in human society.”