Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

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

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.