I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.
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."
I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
...what we need is action - action!
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.