“Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them.”

A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy and puppy might grow to manhood and doghood together, and together grow old.

To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

An author never has a vacation. He’s a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he’s saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.

And so in due course die, full many a heartache might be avoided. But the world is not so ordered, and dogs will die and men will weep for them so long as there are dogs and men.

What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.