Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.