To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

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.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.