To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.