You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them. – Knute Nelson
In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable. – Knute Nelson
It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points – Richmond and Atlanta – the enemys main strength is concentrated. – Knute Nelson
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. – David Hilbert