Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

I often have said that to be a college president you need a thick skin a good sense of humor and nerves like sewer pipes.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.