The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.
The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.
A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals.
I never keep boys waiting. It’s a hard trial for a boy to wait.
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.
I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.
Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains...
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.
Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.
Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.
There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.
I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.
Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children’s children and for all who come after you.
I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for men of all walks of life to meet on common ground where all men are equal and have one common interest.
Power always brings with it responsibility.
The worst thing I can do is nothing.
I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.