A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.