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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

By James A. Garfield
I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

By James A. Garfield
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

By James A. Garfield
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

By James A. Garfield
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.

By James A. Garfield
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

By James A. Garfield
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

By James A. Garfield
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

By James A. Garfield
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

By James A. Garfield
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

By James A. Garfield
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show.

By James A. Garfield