Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing