When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

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

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.