A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.