The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.

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

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.