For Character, To Prepare For The Inevitable

Disunion And Civil War Are At Hand; And Yet I Fear Disunion And War Less Than Compromise. We Can Recover From Them. The Free States Alone, If We Must Go On Alone, Will Make A Glorious Nation. Twenty Millions In The Temperate Zone, Stretching From The Atlantic To The Pacific, Full Of Vigor, Industry, Inventive Genius, Educated, And Moral; Increasing By Immigration Rapidly, And, Above All, Free--all Free--will Form A Confederacy Of Twenty States Scarcely Inferior In Real Power To The Unfortunate Union Of Thirty-three States Which We Had On The First Of November.

Must Swear Off From Swearing. Bad Habit.

I Am A Radical In Thought (and Principle) And A Conservative In Method (and Conduct).

The Reform [of The Civil Service] Should Be Thorough, Radical, And Complete.

No Man, However Benevolent, Liberal, And Wise, Can Use A Large Fortune So That It Will Do Half As Much Good In The World As It Would If It Were Divided Into Moderate Sums And In The Hands Of Workmen Who Had Earned It By Industry And Frugality. The Piling Up Of Estates Often Does Great And Conspicuous Good.... But No Man Does With Accumulated Wealth So Much Good As The Same Amount Would Do In Many Hands.