The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

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

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.