It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.