Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Honor is better than honors.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.