What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.