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

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

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.

The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

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