“I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.”

“Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.”

“Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.”

“A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.”

“That which is most personal, is most interesting.”

“My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.”

“A man of no conversation should smoke.”

“The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.”

“Unpunctuality is a vile habit.”

“Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.”

“There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.”

“I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.”