The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.