'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

He was the author or editor of more than sixty books—fiction travel sermons biography and history. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. It was possibly an influence on the novel The Begum's Fortune by Jules Verne.

Edward Everett Hale (April 3 1822 – June 10 1909) was an American author historian and Unitarian clergyman.