Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.