On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

Killing the dog does not cure the bite.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.