Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.
Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.
I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.