The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day. Charles William Eliot More Quotes by Charles William Eliot More Quotes From Charles William Eliot I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue. Charles William Eliot gentleman mother education Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome. Charles William Eliot boredom overcoming evil The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry. Charles William Eliot industry hero In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. Charles William Eliot public-opinion progress world Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. Charles William Eliot look you glasses world Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles William Eliot teachers books friends patient All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. Charles William Eliot judgements proceeds beliefs business
