In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.