If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.