I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

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

The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will.

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

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.