But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

Labor is the true standard of value.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.