The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn; not knowledge, but power.
- Charles W. Eliot

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.
- Joseph Story

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
- Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Earl of Beaconsfield

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have learned this at least by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau