“Life is hard but so very beautiful”

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

“I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.”

“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.”

“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”