The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.