If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God.

You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.

Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.