He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.