It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

Killing the dog does not cure the bite.

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.