My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.