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.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

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

Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.