It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

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.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character-the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor.

With self-discipline, all things are possible