There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit.

McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.

There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness.

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

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.