If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.