SATAN AND THE BIBLE

He has warred upon them as Satan wars upon the Bible. Reply at Alton Debate, Oct. 15, 1858,

vol. V, p. 45.

GOD AND THE RIGHT PREVAIL

If we do right God will be with us, and if God is with us we cannot fail.-Proclamation for Day of Prayer, July 7, 1864, vol. X, p. 149.

PROBABILITY OF REVELATION

If it is probable that God would reveal His will to others on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed He would reveal it directly to me. Reply to Committee from Religious Denominations of Chicago, Ill., Sept. 13, 1862, vol. VIII, p. 29.

MEN NOT FLATTERED BY VERACITY

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.- Letter to Thurlow Weed, Mar. 15, 1865, vol. XI, p. 54.

NEITHER MAGIC NOR MIRACLE

The way these measures were to help the cause was not to be by magic or miracles.-Letter to Charles D. Robinson, Aug. 17, 1864, vol. X. p. 194.

SHORN LAMB AND TEMPERED WIND

How true it is that "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," or in other words, that He renders the worst of human conditions tolerable, while He permits the best to be nothing better than tolerable.Letter to Mary Speed, Sept. 27, 1841, vol. I, p. 179.

NOT HIS KIND OF RELIGION

I am not much of a judge of religion, but, in my opinion, the religion that sets men to rebel and fight against their government, because, as they think, that government does not sufficiently help some men to eat their bread in the sweat of other men's faces, is not the sort of religion upon which people can get to heaven. Memorandum, Dec. 3, 1864, vol. X, p. 280.

FORGIVENESS ON REPENTANCE

On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.-Indorsement, Feb. 5, 1864, vol. IX, p. 303.

EARNESTNESS OF REBEL PRAYERS

The rebel soldiers are praying with a great deal more earnestness, I fear, than our own troops, and

expecting God to favor their side; for one of our soldiers said that he met with nothing so discouraging as the evident sincerity of those he was among in their prayers. Reply to Committee from the Religious Denominations of Chicago, Ill., Sept. 13, 1862, vol. VIII, p. 29.

PRAYERS TO THE SAME GOD

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces.- -Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865, vol. XI, p. 45.

VALUE OF EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. -Notes for a Law Lecture, July 1, 1850, vol. II, p. 141.

FOLLY OF SUSPICION AND JEALOUSY

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will

succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.- -Letter to William H. Herndon, July 10, 1848, vol. II, p. 57.

YOUNG MEN MUST PUSH

You must not wait to be brought forward by the older men. You young men get together and form a "Rough and Ready Club," and have regular meetings and speeches. Take in everybody you can get. Let everyone play the part he can play best,-some speak, some sing, and all "holler." -Letter to William H. Herndon, June 22, 1848, vol. II. p. 50.

SAFETY ASSURED IN DISTANCE

I think perhaps it might be wise to hand this letter from me, in to your good uncle through his roomwindow after he has had a comfortable dinner, and watch its effect from the top of the pigeon-house. Letter to George E. Pickett, Feb. 22, 1842, vol. I, p. 191.

WORTH OF MAN'S SELF

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. -Address on Negro Colonization, Aug. 14, 1862, vol. VIII, p. 5.

BEST OF A BAD BARGAIN

If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. -Letter to Joshua F. Speed, Feb. 25, 1842, vol. I, p. 213.

FORCE OF UNIVERSAL FEELING

A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded.- -Speech at Peoria, Ill., Oct. 16, 1854, vol. II, p. 207.

PINCHED TOES AND BAD MOTIVES

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our own toes are pinched.-Letter to Gen. Rosecrans, Mar. 17, 1863, vol. VIII, p. 228.

HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS

"A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon J of gall." 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 great highroad to his reason. -Temperance Address, Feb. 22, 1842, vol. I, p. 197.

MAXIM TO REMEMBER

Now, boy, on your march, don't you go and forget the old maxim that "one drop of honey catches more