Let's live together as brother or die together as fool

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey
upon you, and in the end you
are sure to succeed.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.