To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society;...

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best — it’s all they’ll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education...

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

I had always imagined that ClichT was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.