There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.

These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!

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

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.