Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered downstairs. ... There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.''

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.