There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.