Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.

There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.