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

The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.