When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.