"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery."

"whether he was a whig or a tory?"

"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble."

"It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government."

"My dear Gov. Lee: You have exchanged the rugged field of Mars for the soft and pleasurable bed of Venus."