if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

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. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.