Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.