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

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

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

For love of country, they accepted death.

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.