Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

No man can do both effective and decent work in public life unless he is a practical politician on the one hand, and a sturdy believer in Sunday-school politics on the other. He must always strive manfully for the best, and yet, like Abraham Lincoln, must often resign himself to accept the best possible.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.