With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.