To bear fruit, learning must pass into life.
Source, in full
Inauguration speech as president of Wellesley College, October 3, 1899. Printed in the Boston Woman's Journal, vol. 30, no. 40 (Oct. 7, 1899) p. 1, col. 4. Boldface text quoted in Drew Gilpin Faust, "Showing Us How to Do It", remarks for the inauguration of Paula A. Johnson as president of Wellesley College, published online by Harvard University (Sept. 30, 2016)