I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.