'No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.'

'Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.'

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

'Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.'

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When cr…

Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere…

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. That intellectuality is more vigorous that has attained its stren…