Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.