It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, - a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us.

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.