Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.