I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.