Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.