I am rather inclined to silence.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.