Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.