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.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

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.

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

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

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