Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.