Towering genius distains a beaten path..

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him..

The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawy….

If you love something, set it free..

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently..

I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost im….

The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good….

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privi….

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the governmen….

Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in life when we have to face disappointments. These….

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die..

I walk slowly, but never backwards..

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, i….

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinit….

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet..

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure..

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we ….

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough..

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time..

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war..

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man..