Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

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

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.