You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.