I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

General McClellan and myself are to be photographed ... if we can be still long enough. I feel General McClellan should have no problem.

No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them.

I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying; and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Just think of such a sucker as me as President!

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to Death ?