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

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.