...the more widely we extend the range of education, the more necessary it is to provide some principle of cohesion to counterbalance the centrifugal tendencies of specialization and utilitarianism.

...education has always meant the initiation of the young into the social and spiritual inheritance of the community: in other words, education has meant the transmission of culture.

The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.

We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.

It's boring to be like everybody.

I always look well when I'm near death.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

Listen to the advice from the one who's already achieved your goal

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.