It is history that teaches us to hope.

All this has been my fault.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes.