The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.