The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

Honor is better than honors.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.