We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.