The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.

And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.