It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.