You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

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.

What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness

All this silence between us, to protect her, and what has it wrought! How unthinking I was, ” he cringed as he beat himself up inside.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.

Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.

People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.

I think it’s important to make all women feel like they’re princesses, because every girl is a princess. I’m serious.

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.