A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.