Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

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

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.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing 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.