“It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'”
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Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.