God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.