I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

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

The will of God prevails.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

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.