Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.