The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a… — David Swing Copy Share
It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All that can here be affirmed is that what the religion of those two men lacked in theological details it made up in greatness. Their minds were born with a love of great principles... There are few instances in… — David Swing Copy Share
The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a church in which the purest and noblest worship of God was observed. His occupation has become associated in our minds… — David Swing Copy Share
The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics how he should acquire it, whether by honesty or fraud. Geography is a map of the world; ethics is a beautiful map of duty. This ethics is not Christianity, it is not even religion; but it is the… — David Swing Copy Share
The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all. — David Swing Copy Share Image
As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of… — David Swing Copy Share Image
Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition. — David Swing Copy Share Image
