"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and …"

"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

"I shall try to do my duty, and I shall try to do it conscientiously."

"I am a living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. It is possible for each of you to attain to that."

"I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I cannot be wrong; and yet, how many think I am!"