We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.
Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
Everybody likes a compliment.
We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.