All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true sch…

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these c…

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumula…

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, a…

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

I must follow them. I am their leader.

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther…

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell