"The good judge is not he who..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.”

“A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.”

“A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.”

“Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.”

“Law stands mute in the midst of arms.”

“Someone will have to pay for the innocent blood that they shed every day.”

“Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.”

“His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.”

“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”