There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

The worst of all fears is the fear of living

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.