The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.