Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you.… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
“You allow that we designate a disease as mortal when Nature is so severely attacked, and her strength so far exhausted, that she cannot… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being, in vain he… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
“We should daily repeat to ourselves," I exclaimed, "that we should not interfere with our friends, unless to leave them in possession of their… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
