I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.