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 am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.