Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.