Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.

For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.