Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.