Read History, Works Of Truth, Not Novels

There Is Nothing Left For Me To Do But To Go And See General Grant And I Would Rather Die A Thousand Deaths.

The Questions Which For Years Were In Dispute Between The State And General Government, And Which Unhappily Were Not Decided By The Dictates Of Reason, But Referred To The Decision Of War, Having Been Decided Against Us, It Is The Part Of Wisdom To Acquiesce In The Result, And Of Candor To Recognize The Fact.

The Time Is Not Come For Impartial History. If The Truth Were Told Just Now, It Would Not Be Credited.

Why, It Appears That We Appointed All Of Our Worst Generals To Command The Armies And We Appointed All Of Our Best Generals To Edit The Newspapers. I Mean, I Found By Reading A Newspaper That These Editor Generals Saw All Of The Defects Plainly From The Start But Didn't Tell Me Until It Was Too Late. I'm Willing To Yield My Place To These Best Generals And I'll Do My Best For The Cause By Editing A Newspaper.

Duty Is The Sublimest Work In The English Language.