The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.