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.

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

The Library is the heart of the University.

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

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.

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.

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