The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

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

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.