There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

Keep your friendships in repair.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.