Looked up Edward Everett Hale (NOT HORTON- thanks mOm), once chaplain to the US Senate and a noted theologian, writer and speaker (Unitarian, ‘fcourse).
Throughout his lifetime Edward Hale made a number of statements that reveal his wise and stately character and now serve to mark his distinguished literary career. Here are some quotes, lifted from Wikipedia
- ‘Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?’ No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.
- I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. <—- this is not the quote in the hymnal, interestingly enough.
- If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
- In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
- Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
- Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
- The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.
- To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.
- War – hard apprenticeship of freedom.
- Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately