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

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.

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

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.

Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome

That is morality, I make myself imagine that it is personal.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!

It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.

How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.