Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I'm just a little bit sicker than the average individual I think.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend.