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.

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.

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

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.

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

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