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

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

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.

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.