Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has the moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.
All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.
Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.
No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.
Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin’s sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.
It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.
The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.
The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.
No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.
Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.
I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.
The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man...
The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us.
I do. That is character!
I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.
If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.
I hate a man who skins the land.