“You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.”

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, ” I must follow them. I am their leader.”

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades.

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man’s confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

There’s a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

I must follow them. I am their leader.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It’s not always that way in the West.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family.

If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.

Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature’s unpredictable creatures.