If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

For love of country, they accepted death.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.