Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through that book." On a personal spiritual note, Lincoln confessed, "I have been driven many times to my knees with the overwhelming conviction, that I had nowhere else to go.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

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

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.