The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'