I was a younger man, but an older lawyer.

He was not admitted to the bar till after I was.

I was not closely connected with him.

Indeed, I did not meet him often, professionally, until I went on the bench in 1842; and he was then in full practice before the Supreme Court, and continued to practice there regularly at every term until he was elected President.

Mr.Lincoln understood the relations of things, and hence his deductions were rarely wrong from any given state of facts.