I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

All that harms labor is treason to America.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.