Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth.

Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind.

When we count on chance in lieu of law and labor, we weaken our healthy attitudes toward work, our fellow men and our God.

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer the shoreline where the known meets the unknown.

True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.