Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.