Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This is not local self-government. It is not American. It is not the method which has made this country what it is. We can not maintain the western standard of civilization on that theory. If it is supported at all, it will have to be supported on the principle of individual responsibility.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?