My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.