A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.