» A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
» To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
» Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
» There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
» Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
» Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
» For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
» The American people abhor a vacuum.
» The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
» I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.