Harvard

[Jeremy] Bentham held no post at the mercy of bankers and tripe sellers; he was a man of independent means, a lawyer and politician and a heretic in general practice. It is impossible to imagine such a man occupying a chair at Harvard or Princeton.Hehad a hand intoomany pies; he was too rebellious and contumacious; he had too little respect for authority, either academic or worldly. Moreover, his mind was too wide for a professor; he Mencken could never remain safely in a groove; the whole field of social organization invited his inquiries and experiments.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

—Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ

My father used to say, 'Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave or the glass flowers at Harvard.'

—Moore, Marianne Craig

They saya building isgood architecture if it works.Of course, this is poppycock. All buildings work† You expect anyarchitect, a graduate of Harvard or not, to be able to put the kitchen in the right place.

—Johnson, Philip Cortelyou

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

—Conant,James Bryant

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

—Melville, Herman