Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. Be specially vigilant-or instruct those engaged in the prosecution of fraud to be-against all who insinuate that they have high influence to protect-or to protect them. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America...War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.

I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony between the Federal and Confederate. I cannot stay to be a living witness to the correctness of this prophecy; but I feel it within me that it is to be so.

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.