Honor is better than honors.

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

No man ever got lost on a straight road.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.