I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.