I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Some day I shall be President.

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

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