We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.