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?

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.