“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.”

“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.”