The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

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

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told; and as whatever of humilation there is in it, falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it.

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.