We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.