There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.