"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"
"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them."
"The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next."
"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."
"in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity."