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

- Edward Everett Hale

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

- Edward Everett Hale

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…

- Edward Everett Hale

[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…

- Edward Everett Hale

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

- Edward Everett Hale

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…

- Edward Everett Hale

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.

- Edward Everett Hale

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

- Edward Everett Hale

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

- Edward Everett Hale