The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.