A delightful sense of being very young and free in a civilization that was very old and free.

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual There!—yet

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

Integrity gains strength by use.

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.

You are not a success until you start changing other lives permanently.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.

Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration.