I've a great regard for principles, but I have no use for them when they get so high that they become foolishness." "Every idle pedant thinks he knows better how to fight a war than the men who are labouring sixteen hours a day at it," said Stanton bitterly.
"They want to hurry things quicker than the Almighty means them to go.

I don't altogether blame them either, for I'm mortally impatient myself.
But it s no good thinking that saying a thing should be so will make it so.

We're not the Creator of this universe.

You've got to judge results according to your instruments.

Horace Greeley is always telling me what I should do, but Horace omits to explain how I am to find the means.