Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.