Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.