Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.