As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.

no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.