Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. – Calvin Coolidge
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. – Calvin Coolidge
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. – Calvin Coolidge
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. – Calvin Coolidge
Vision may sometimes sleep in the sun, while it wakens to widest revelation in utter darkness. Thus I am rapt in a trance-like acceptance of opening cavernous depths, crypts of decyphered gloom, yielding hollows of velvet obscurity that go down, down to the roots of things. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne