"In the unending strife for civic betterment, small is the use of these people who mean well, but who mean well feebly."
"The man who counts is the man who is decent and who makes himself felt as a force for decency, for cleanliness, for civic righteousness."
"The only first-rate work is the work done by the man who does it for the sake of doing it well, who counts the deed itself as his reward."
"When it comes to rendering service, that which counts chiefly with a college graduate, as with any other American citizen, is not intellect so much as what stands above mere power of body, or mere pow..."
"Not one in a hundred of us is fit to be in the highest sense a productive scholar, but all of us are entirely fit to do decent service if we care to take the pains."
"One piece of first-rate work is worth a thousand pieces of second-rate work."
"To you much has been given, and woe and shame to you if we cannot rightfully expect much from you in return."
"The public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation."
"The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Dismal River Forest Reserve."
"It appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation."