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

"Public opinion, though often an erring, is generally an irresistible power."

"Common sense is the most uncommon sense."

"Our republican robe is soiled and trailed in the dust. Let us repurify it. Let us turn and wash it white, in the spirit, if not the blood, of the Revolution. Let us make our name of American, the kind…"

"It is better to be a young man of 60 than an old man of 40."