Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble.