A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

Shall we stop this bleeding?

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.