I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.