Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

Everybody likes compliment.

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.