The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.