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.

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

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.