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!

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

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.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.