Resolve to be honest at all events: and if in your judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation.

A lawyer's advice is his stock and trade.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

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 claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me