Just as you believe you may have already halfway there

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.

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.

Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.