It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.