There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.