War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

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

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace.

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