If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

I walk slowly, but never backwards.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.