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

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.