We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.

We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

I was too weak to defend, so I attacked

I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.

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.

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.