I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

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

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

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

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.