_TWENTY-THIRD_ I did not break my sword, for I had none to break, but I bent my musket pretty badly. _TWENTY-FOURTH_ Meet face to face and converse together--the best way to efface unpleasant feeling. _TWENTY-FIFTH_ And now for a day of Thanksgiving! _TWENTY-SIXTH_ The influence of fashion is not confined to any particular thing or class of things. _TWENTY-SEVENTH_ Before I resolve to do the one thing or the other, I must gain my confidence in my own ability to keep my resolves when they are made. _TWENTY-EIGHTH_ Such of us as have never fallen victims to intemperance have been spared more from the absence of appetite than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have. _TWENTY-NINTH_ Our political revolution of 1776 was the germ that has vegetated, and still is to grow into the universal liberty of mankind. _THIRTIETH_ By mutual concessions we should harmonize and act together. _DECEMBER_ _Teach hope to all--despair to none._ _FIRST_ Rise up to the height of a generation of free men worthy of a free government. _SECOND_ Let us be quite sober. _THIRD_ We prefer a candidate who will allow the people to have their own way, regardless of his private opinion. _FOURTH_ The people's will is the ultimate law for all. _FIFTH_ I shall do my utmost that whoever is to hold the helm for the next voyage shall start with the best possible chance of saving the ship. _SIXTH_ My gratitude is free from all sense of personal triumph. _SEVENTH_ How to do something, and not to do too much, is the desideratum. _EIGHTH_ We mean to be as deliberate and calm as it is possible to be; but as firm and resolved as it is possible for men to be. _NINTH_ He that will fight to keep himself a slave, ought to be a slave. _TENTH_ If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. _ELEVENTH_ Under all this seeming want of life and motion, the world does move nevertheless. _TWELFTH_ I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about. _THIRTEENTH_ It adds nothing to my satisfaction that another man shall be disappointed. _FOURTEENTH_ Take your full time. _FIFTEENTH_ I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. _SIXTEENTH_ The man and the dollar, but, in case of conflict, the man before the dollar. _SEVENTEENTH_ The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds. _EIGHTEENTH_ We can see the past, though we may not claim to have directed it; and seeing it, we feel more hopeful and confident for the future. _NINETEENTH_ Squirming and crawling around can do no good. _TWENTIETH_ I wish to see all men free. _TWENTY-FIRST_ Let them laugh, so long as the thing works well. _TWENTY-SECOND_ Let there be peace. _TWENTY-THIRD_ The age is not yet dead. _TWENTY-FOURTH_