"A college degree does not lessen the..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.”

“Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.”

“We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.”

“Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.”

“Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.”

“With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.”

“One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.”

“When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.”

“In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.”