For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

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.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!