There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!