I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.