It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.

As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

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

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.