I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

The will of the people is the best law.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.

I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone.

The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.