Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.