The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
