Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.