Who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?

As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man.

Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser--in fees, expenses, and waste of time.

Persuade your neighbours to compromise whenever you can.

And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making.

However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

The leading rule for a lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

I will prepare and someday my chance will come.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

You must not wait to be brought forward by the older men.

It would astonish, if not amuse, the older citizens to learn that I (a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flatboat at ten dollars per month) have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and…

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next, no one left to borrow from, so must it be with a government.

However strictly the citizen may exclude from his premises all foreign luxuries, fine cloths, fine silks, rich wines, golden chains, and diamond rings,--still, for the possession of his house, his barn, and his homespun he is to be…

In short, by this system the burden of revenue falls almost entirely on the wealthy and luxurious few, while the substantial and labouring many, who live at home and upon home products, go entirely free.

By this system, the man who contents himself to live upon the products of his own country pays nothing at all.

And, again, by the tariff system the whole revenue is paid by the consumers of foreign goods, and those chiefly the luxuries and not the necessaries of life.

It is a system not only ruinous while it lasts, but one that must soon fail and leave us destitute.

He ever seems to have gone forth like the Egyptian angel of death, commissioned to slay, if not the first, the fairest born of every family.

What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity.

The citadels of his great adversary are daily being stormed and dismantled; his temples and his altars, where the rites of his idolatrous worship have long been performed, and where human sacrifices have long been wont to be made, are…