Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.