The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.