The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.