The people of the South have too much of good sense, and good temper, to attempt the ruin of the government ... At least, so I hope and believe.

The North responds to the proclamation sufficiently in breath; but breath alone kills no rebels.

Without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country.

So much of promised usefulness to one's country, and of bright hopes for one's self and friends, have rarely been so suddenly dashed, as in his fall.

If there is a worse place than hell, I am in it.

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.