I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

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.

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts