Labor is the true standard of value.

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.