Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

Believe you can do it and you are halfway there