Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. – Phillips Brooks
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. – Phillips Brooks
In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness. – Phillips Brooks
Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year — and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. – Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)