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.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.