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

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever.

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

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