Too many piglets not enough tits.

If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.