When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

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.

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.