No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.

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.

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

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.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.