My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.