If thou need money, get it in an honest way—by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books. - John Lancaster Spalding

Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.

As the savages whom we have instructed are ready when left to themselves to return to their ancestral mode of life, so our young people quickly forget what they have learned at school, and sink back into the commonplace existence from which a right education would have saved them.

In the world of thought a man’s rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.