Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.