Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.