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.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

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.

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the rules in accordance with which decent men have had to shape their lives from the beginning .. fundamental precepts, put forth in the Bible and embodied consciously or unconsciously in the code of morals of every great and successful nation from antiquity to modern times.