You cannot fail unless you quit.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.