Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.