"History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness."

“We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.”

“It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?”

“Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.”

“Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools.”

“Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.”

“It is worthy of notice that many of this generation, fed on text-books, on anthologies and on abstracts, cannot read.”