You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.

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.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.