“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“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 am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”