Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.