It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.