I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

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

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.

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