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.

I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true course; and I think so still. Controversy of all kinds will, in my opinion, only serve to continue excitement and passion, and will prevent the public mind from the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.