Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

This nation under God