I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.