It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

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

In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

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.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.