When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

You cannot fail unless you quit.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.