Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

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.

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.