A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.