Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.

The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.