The worst of all fears is the fear of living

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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

Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible

The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.