Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.