If my superiors shall permit me to come home, I hope it will be soon; if they mean I should stay abroad, I am not able to say what I shall do, until I know in what capacity. One thing is certain, that I will not live long without my family.

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.