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

Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends...every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.