"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS"
"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."
"Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed."
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."