A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.