For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.

To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.