I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.