Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

If you would have your fiction live forever, you must neither overtly preach nor overtly teach; but you must covertly preach and covertly teach.

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that …

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human b…

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generation…