Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.