Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

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.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.