If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.