Henry Cabot Lodge: “He had no hostility to a man because he had been successful in business or because he had accumulated a fortune.”

However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul I pity those miseries which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.

There is nothing in human beings at once so sane and so sympathetic as a sense of humor.

Fortitude in misfortune is more common than composure in the hour of victory.

It is a hard thing to beat an opposing army, but it is equally hard to bring human jealousies and ambitions into the narrow path of self-sacrifice and subordination.