Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted?

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.