If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

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

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

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

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

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