The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.