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.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

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

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.