Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.