Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.

- Newell Dwight Hillis

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

- Newell Dwight Hillis

Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. Al…

- Newell Dwight Hillis

Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.

- Newell Dwight Hillis

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

- Newell Dwight Hillis

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

- Newell Dwight Hillis

Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

- Newell Dwight Hillis

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medic…

- Newell Dwight Hillis