There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

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.

Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.

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