Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

In oratory the will must predominate.

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

the waiting is the hardest part.

Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.