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.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.