"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind."

"I have a perfect horror of the man who is all head and no heart."

"I don't think there is any use of my going into the matter of the lynching. I will not say anything about it one way or the other."

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to…"

"I have been in Sagamore Hill for two days, and have had a perfectly lovely time. I killed a rattlesnake and a copperhead, and caught a woodchuck alive and put him in a barrel. I also killed a weasel a…"