I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... 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.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

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

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.