Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.