We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. They do not know how much truth is stronger than error, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.