A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.