I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

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

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.