Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

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

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.