In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

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.

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.