Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.