Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

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.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.