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

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.