We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.
When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.
The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.
I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.