I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.