In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.