Good night; ensured release,
Imperishable peace,
Have these for yours. While sky and sea and land And earth’s foundations stand And heaven endures.

To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace

Tut, Tut, looks like rain

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman

When a man’s got money in his pocket, he begins to appreciate peace.

I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.

We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.

Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I’ll go along with them

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.