There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.