If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.