What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a Single day.

We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.