Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

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

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.