Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.