Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.