“The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.”

Politics make me sick.

When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.

I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.

It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.