A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

What is well done is done soon enough.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea