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

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

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

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

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 best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

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