Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.
A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.
We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was inevitab...
We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
I have never heard anyone profess indifference to a boat race. Why should you row a boat race? Why endure long months of pain in preparation of a fierce half hour, or even six minutes, that will leave...
We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.
But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to le...
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.