"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them."

"I could not feel that I had done my duty to the country if I should permit myself to be prevailed upon to make any such appointment."

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

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act ane…"