We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God.

General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

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.