Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

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

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

As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

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.