Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.
One is a majority if he is right.
Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.
I have a congenital aversion to failure.
I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.
Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.
A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.
Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.
We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good – good – considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.