Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

Everybody likes a compliment.

The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

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