Everybody likes a compliment.

Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.