“Everybody likes compliment.”

“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”

“I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.”

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ”

“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”

“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”