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.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

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