When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.

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.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.