The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.