I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

Too many piglets not enough tits.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.