Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.