Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.