“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
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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.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
