I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.