The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.