Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.