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

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

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

I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.

So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.