In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven.

Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when we are eating.

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

I can't do everything, but that won't stop me from doing the little I can do.

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.