It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

The devil's name is dullness.

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.

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

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