To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.