I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

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.

By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."