Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

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

With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

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