If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.