What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.