It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.