Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.