I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

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

A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.

Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.

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.