I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.