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

When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

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.

There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.