Wisdom Is Nothing More Than Healed Pain.

True Patriotism Sometimes Requires Of Men To Act Exactly Contrary, At One Period, To That Which It Does At Another, And The Motive Which Impels Them The Desire To Do Right Is Precisely The Same.

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.

Life Insurance Trusts I Consider Sacred. To Hazard The Property Of The Dead & To Lose The Scanty Earnings Of Fathers & Husbands, Who Have Toiled & Saved That They May Leave Something To Their Families Deprived Of Their Care & The Support Of Their Labour, Is To My Mind The Worst Of Crimes.

What A Cruel Thing Is War: To Separate And Destroy Families And Friends, And Mar The Purest Joys And Happiness God Has Granted Us In This World; To Fill Our Hearts With Hatred Instead Of Love For Our Neighbors, And To Devastate The Fair Face Of This Beautiful World.

I Am As Willing To Serve Now As In The Beginning In Any Capacity And At Any Post Where I Can Do Good. The Lower The Position, The More Suitable To My Ability And The More Agreeable To My Feelings.