The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.