I can't spare this man, he fights!

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.