The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.