His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.