If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.

Nature will not be admired by proxy.

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.