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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.