Who ever hears of valedictorians twenty years after graduation?
Class honors don't amount to much." "I suppose they can be overestimated; but they must prove some sort of excellence which will stand one in good stead in after years.

I should never advise a boy or girl to work for honors alone; but if after doing one's very best the honors come naturally, they are very pleasant." "Half the best scholars in our class are prigs," said Edgar discontentedly.

"Always down on the live fellows who want any sport.
Sometimes I wish I had never gone to college at all.

Unless you deny yourself every pleasure, and live the life of a hermit, you can't take any rank.

My father expects me to get a hundred and one per cent.