Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.