I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.

The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.

I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms."