Ezra Cornell Quotes
- I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can…
- I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.
- As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less…
- The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831…
- I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended…
- There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of…
- My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious…
- There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.
- Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.
- Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron
- I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.
- In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.
- The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not…
- Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.
- I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I…
- Inquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.
- The Soul of man is made an article of merchandise by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happiness does not…