The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.