God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.