Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

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

You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

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.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.