We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Necessitous men are not free men.

You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Books cannot be killed by fire.