All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

I must follow them. I am their leader.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.