I walk slowly, but never backwards.

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.