Never, never, never give up.

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.