“The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.”

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.

Advertising in the final analysis should be news.

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.