Never let your correspondence fall behind.

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.