The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

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

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.