The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

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

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.