Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.