"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."
"The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next."
"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."