The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.