The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.