Edward Everett Hale

"He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands."

"Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, teleg…"

"We went on in our quiet way. Life was purer and simpler and less annoyed to us, because constantly, now, we met with near and dear friends whom we had not known a day before, who looked up and not dow…"

"Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand!"

"No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all thes…"

"Together — one of the most inspiring words in the English language. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

"You may divide literature into two great classes of books. The smaller class of the two consists of the books written by people who had something to say. They had in life learned something, or seen so…"

"The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shaksp…"