I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.