War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.