The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.