I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

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.

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

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.