Public opinion in this country is everything.

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'