I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

The Library is the heart of the University.

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.

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world

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.

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

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.