The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.