Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.