"Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations."
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
"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."
"All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be."
"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."