As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

Honor is better than honors.

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.

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

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

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.