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

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

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.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.