Abraham Lincoln: “Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.”

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.

As a general rule I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?

I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.