Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.