The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

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

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.