If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

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

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.