We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

The fewer the desires, the more peace.