My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

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.

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Teach him to deny himself.

It is history that teaches us to hope.