The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

- James Bryce

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

- James Bryce

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

- James Bryce

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

- James Bryce

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

- James Bryce

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

- James Bryce

Life is too short to read inferior books.

- James Bryce

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

- James Bryce

In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back …

- James Bryce