"Study: concentration of the mind on whatever..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”

“I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.”

“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”

“The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.”

“I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.”

“Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.”

“Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.”

“Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?”

“Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.”