Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.