Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join