Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
The happier time, the quicker it passes
The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.