Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.