I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.