I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

Writing is the great invention of the world.

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.