That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.
I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.