The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.