I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

If there is a worse place than hell, I am in it.

The satisfaction arising from the indulgent opinion entertained by the American People of my conduct, will, I trust, be some security for preventing me from doing any thing, which might justly incur the forfeiture of that opinion. And the consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected, will always continue to prompt me to promote the progress of the former, by inculcating the practice of the latter.

It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.