Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.