Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.