'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country..

In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will contin….

[S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But sleep—good sleep, and enough….

No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one et….

Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you….

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World..

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough..

[I]t is easy to regard the mind and the body as two slaves trained to obey the imperial soul.... [I]n this trinity of soul, mind, and body, it is som….

I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from.

An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise….

You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of One who knows more than we do hav….

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have..

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom..

I will not refuse to do the something I can do..

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life..

He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands..

The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual impro….

I can't do everything, but that won't stop me from doing the little I can do..

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand..

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life..

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately..