The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.