Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

There is not a moment without some duty.

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.