Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.