Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

But before she tells you anything." I glared at him suspiciously."your seed..."Tsaeb winced."What the hell are you talking about?""your...well, your seed. You know, you have to knock her up.

I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.

Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.

I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?