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.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

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

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.