You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.