The greatest comfort in this life is having a close relationship with God.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early

I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.

One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome.

Seeking the pleasure of conjugality without a willingness to assume the responsibilities of rearing a family is one of the onslaughts that now batter at the structure of the American home. Intelligence and mutual consideration should be ever-present factors in determining the coming of children to the home.

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.