The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.