The Library is the heart of the University.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.