Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

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.

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.