There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.