Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.