The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.