William Lyon Phelps quotes and words of wisdom

"I thoroughly believe in a university education for both men and women, but I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible."
Found in the topic Bible.

"Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, against the lack and loss of animal delights. How essential it is, then, in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls."
Found in the topic Education.

"The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
Found in the topic Reactionaries.

"The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older."
Found in the topic Age.

"You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor."
Found in the topic Honor.

"If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet."
Found in the topic Power.

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