The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

Everybody likes a compliment.

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

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

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.