Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.

Most people would rather die than think: many do.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

While there's life, there's hope.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.