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.

While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a Single day.

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

All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.