The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.