I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

Man is not made better by being degraded.