The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

History teaches us hope.

Traveler is my only companion; I may also say my pleasure. He and I, whenever practicable, wander out in the mountains and enjoy sweet confidence.

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.

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

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.