If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.