We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.

Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.