Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.