It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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

A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.

We do not admire a man of timid peace.

There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness.

McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.