That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.