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.

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.