The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.