Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

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.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.