If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.