"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS"
"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."
"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."
"The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next."
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."