Towering genius distains a beaten path.

I will learn, the opportunity will come.

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

The will of God prevails.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.