It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

The fewer the desires, the more peace.

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

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.