Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he a...ppears; he does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly,--but method, and an even web; and what comes out, that was put in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every member of the family of the future will be a producer of some kind and in some degree. The only one who will have the right ...of exemption will be the mother ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.... And yet there is not a mor...e fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speechmaking. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »