The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.