The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me