Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

Every expert was once a beginner.

Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.

He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature?

While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.

The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.