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

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.

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.

I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

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

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

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.