But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things