You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.