He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets.

That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment

Sir, you are like a pin, but without either its head or its point.

In this world truth can wait; she's used to it.

If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest