Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which, in destroying individual rights - including property rights - and the family, would destroy the two chief agents in the advance of mankind, and the two chief reasons why either the advance or the preservation of mankind is worthwhile.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

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