Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.
Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?
The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.
Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.