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.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.