Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.