"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the too frequent changes of officers."

"Ah, Lee, you are a funny fellow, see, that bird is laughing at you."

"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."

"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."

"I am glad to hear that my old acquaintance Colonel Ward is yet under the influence of vigorous passions. I will not ascribe the intrepidity of his late enterprise to a mere flash of desires, because i…"