Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.

Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by his example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Mr. Lincoln [told] the story of the young man who had an aged father and mother owning considerable property. The young man being an only son and believing that the old people had lived out their usefullness assassinated them both. He was accused, tried, and convicted of the murder. When the judge came to pass sentence upon him and called upon him to give any reason he might have why the sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he with great promptness replied he hoped the court would be lenient upon him because he was a poor orphan.