There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

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.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.