I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.