Henry S. Haskins Quotes

We should train our desires to show the way to our dreams.

When you start to indulge yourself, remember it is what they do with invalids and children.

Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

If you obtain provision for yourself of spiritual abundance, don’t throw the surplus at people’s heads; feed it back into your own industry as capital for the production of more abundance.

A distant destination austerely reached rarely compensates for a loved starting-point forever lost.

Remembrance of hopes that were silly has an especial tenderness, for much of their silliness came from a thoughtless credulity which we would be glad to have back again.

If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.

There are many branches of learning, but only the one solid tree-trunk of wisdom.

Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.

It is the honest lies we tell—statements factually correct and essentially deceiving—which debauch our manhood and stunt our growth.

Dive where the water is deep.

We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd instinct.

Avoid membership in a body of persons pledged to only one side of anything.

Twenty is in hot haste to become a year older and cast its first vote, which Forty will know was cast like the legendary pearls.