A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.