"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."
"All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be."
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself."
"Things do not change; we change."