Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.