If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.

Never let your correspondence fall behind.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.