One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

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

Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.

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.

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

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

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