Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free.

A university stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search for truth.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

Everyone being allowed to learn to read ruins in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.