He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.