When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

Be excellent and party on dudes.

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.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.