Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action..

Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life..

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress..

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you..

The Library is the heart of the University..

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you….

The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then ….

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day..

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power..

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers..

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work..

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself..

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother….

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence..

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inferenc….

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as we….

If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to culti….

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties..

Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne..

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or withi….

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends..