Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.

To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.