Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Live truth instead of professing it.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.