This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the most convincing of human experience that has ever been written...and those who heed that story will know their strength and happiness and success are all summed up in the exhortation, "Fear God and keep His commandments."

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.