Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

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

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

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

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

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.