"The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry."

"Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges dow…"

"No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a …"

"In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success."

"One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride bas…"

"Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirm…"

"In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vis…"

"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…"

"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so i…"