The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will certainly fail; and failures to men in power, are like defeats to a general, they shake their popularity. Therefore, since they cannot sail in the teeth of the wind, they must tack, and ultimately gain their object, by appearing at times to be departing from it.

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.