The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.

Reality is what I see, not what you see.

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

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

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

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