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

- Charles William Eliot

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

- Charles William Eliot

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

- Charles William Eliot

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

- Charles William Eliot

The Library is the heart of the University.

- Charles William Eliot

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

- Charles William Eliot

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world

- Charles William Eliot

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

- Charles William Eliot

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

- Charles William Eliot