“Justice is truth in action.”

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

“What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.”

“It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.”