There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.