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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.