You can't help the poor by being one of them..

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance..

I have a congenital aversion to failure..

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty….

There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all ….

I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distingu….

Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only….

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind..

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us..

Too many piglets not enough tits..

While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those whit….

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom..

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion..

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time..

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man..

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side..

It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but ….

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is ….

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war..

People are just as happy as they choose to be..