We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

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

We must forgive our enemies.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.