It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nations wounds.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

If I had eight hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.