Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

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.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

Labor is the true standard of value.