I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

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.

Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.