To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

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.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.