Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.