Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.