The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

It's not the critic that counts.

If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.