Experience is the mother of custom.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.