The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.

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

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.