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.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.