When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

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.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.