I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.

The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.