Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".

- John James Ingalls

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

- John James Ingalls

Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow gr…

- John James Ingalls

I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach e…

- John James Ingalls

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

- John James Ingalls

I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England …

- John James Ingalls

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

- John James Ingalls

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

- John James Ingalls

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

- John James Ingalls