Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.