Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

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.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that time is yet ages distant. As yet no nation can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing, unless it stands ready to guard its right with an armed hand.

Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic.