A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.