“if due to ego you think:i shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. your own nature will compel you.”

“Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”

“Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer”

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men,—that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.”

“You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!”

“That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”