Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.

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

To know is not less than to feel.

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 earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.