Herbert Hoover

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.