To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.