You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.
The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
All things come to him who waits.
A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.
The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.