Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

People are just as happy as they choose to be.