"Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

"Every man has a right to be tried by a jury of his peers, but not by a jury of his superiors or his inferiors."

"There are no days in life so memorable as those which bring with them a keen sense of a new birth, as if you had never lived before."

"I am a lover of silence."

"I have a great respect for the man who can make a living by his pen."