Duty is the sublimest work in the English language..

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths..

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends..

My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of er….

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed..

Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and ….

The education of a man is never completed until he dies..

All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicke….

Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I….

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia..

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!.

If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers….

He has lost his left arm, but I my right..

Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sen….

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain..

The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last..

We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray earnestly….

Teach him to deny himself..

The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest ….

With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my ha….

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army..