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.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

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.

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

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

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

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 well as on good judgment.

The Library is the heart of the University.

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

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 tongue.

I imagine the ones we’ve lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that’s terrifying, and sometimes it’s reassuring, a promise of homecoming.

This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.

By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence.

Progress is mostly the product of rogues.