How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Joe Cool always spends the first two weeks at college sailing his frisbee.

...He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.

It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground.

A good name lost is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.