I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

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.

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

History teaches us hope.

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.