“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

“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.”

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

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