My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.