To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.