When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

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

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.