I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.