To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.