A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.

A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.

You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.