It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.