Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.