David Starr Jordan

“A fool can make money; but it takes a wise man to tell how to spend it.”

“It is your own fault if you are worthless. The world is full of opportunities.”

“The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.”

“There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.”

“If you want to get a trout, you don't fish in a bathtub.”

“The love of nature is a great gift, and if it is enforced upon us by hurts and sorrows, it becomes all the better gift.”

“The common man is the best product of the nation.”

“The best political economy is the care and culture of men.”

“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”

“America is a tune. It must be sung together.”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”

“Today is your day and mine, the only day we have, the day in which we play our part.”

“The university is not a place of fossils, but a place of living, growing men and women.”

“The path of science is paved with dead scientists.”

“The man who is sure of his point and is going to carry it, is the man whom the world will follow.”