"I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics."
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality."
"All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be."
"I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune."