God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.