Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

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

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.