I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.
To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.
The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.
Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?
I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.
Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.
There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality. All else is immorality.
Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.
The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.
Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.
In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.
You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.
In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.
A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.
When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.