The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.