The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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.

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.