Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

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.