You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.