Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

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.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.