The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

Honor is better than honors.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.