Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

You cannot barter manhood for peace.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.

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.

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

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.