If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

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.

The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.