Everybody likes a compliment.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.