People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.