Everybody likes a compliment.

Some day I shall be President.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.