Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

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

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.

Teach him to deny himself.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles.