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

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

A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

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

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.

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.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.