Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.