The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future