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

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.