If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.