Who said “The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence…”?

“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.”

“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”

“'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.”

“Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.”

“The mediaeval university looked backwards: it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge... The modern university looks forward: it is a factory of new knowledge.”

“Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.”

“The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.”

“A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.”

“The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

“Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.”

“You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.”