Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

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.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.