Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
He who represents himself has a fool for a client.
If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Honor is better than honors.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.