Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

What holds attention determines action.

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.