It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

Everybody appreciates a compliment.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

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

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.