You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.