“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”

“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”

“Towering genius disdains a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it...”

“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”

“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”

“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.”

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

“If Friendship is your weakest point, you are the strongest person in the world.”

“you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”

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

“And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.”

“A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — 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 government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”