Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

Honor is better than honors.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.