“The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.”

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

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

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

We are the heirs of the ages.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

Most of the things he did were naive but he read books and he sure loved her right.

Happiness is to just read some good books and someone to share them with.

A snowy night with fine wine and an old dusty book, a perfect place to be once in a while.

You closed the book before we could reach the end.

A page in my book will always blank in case you come back.

That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it