If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

Right reason is stronger than force.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

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