"It is easy to carp at colleges,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.”

“For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.”

“The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.”

“When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.”

“Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.”

“Genius is power, talent is applicability.”

“We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”