Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.
I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
I am rather inclined to silence.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Never regret what you don't write.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
Some day I shall be President.
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
