Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.