There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.