Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

Here in my heart, my happiness, my house. Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life. Peace is my companion on the pathway winding to the threshold. Inside this portal dwells new strength in the security, serenity, and radiance of those I love above life itself. Here two will build new dreams--dreams that tomorrow will come true. The world over, these are the thoughts at eventide when footsteps turn ever homeward. In the haven of the hearthside is rest and peace and comfort.