Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.