“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.”

“What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.”

“True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.”

“It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.”

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”

“I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.”

“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.”