All I Ever Wanted Was A Virginia

It Is Easier To Make Our Wishes Conform To Our Means Than To Make Our Means Conform To Our Wishes.

The War... Was An Unnecessary Condition Of Affairs, And Might Have Been Avoided If Forebearance And Wisdom Had Been Practiced On Both Sides.

My Experiences Of Men Has Neither Disposed Me To Think Worse Of Them Nor Be Indisposed To Serve Them: Nor, In Spite Of Failures Which I Lament, Of Errors Which I Now See And Acknowledge, Or The Present Aspect Of Affairs, Do I Despair Of The Future. The Truth Is This: The March Of Providence Is So Slow And Our Desires So Impatient; The Work Of Progress So Immense And Our Means Of Aiding It So Feeble; The Life Of Humanity Is So Long, That Of The Individual So Brief, That We Often See Only The Ebb Of The Advancing Wave And Are Thus Discouraged. It Is History That Teaches Us To Hope.

Let Us Go Home And Cultivate Our Virtues.

It's The Loneliest Feeling In The World-to Find Yourself Standing Up When Everybody Else Is Sitting Down. To Have Everybody Look At You And Say, 'what's The Matter With Him?' I Know. I Know What It Feels Like. Walking Down An Empty Street, Listening To The Sound Of Your Own Footsteps. Shutters Closed, Blinds Drawn, Doors Locked Against You. And You Aren't Sure Whether You're Walking Toward Something, Or If You're Just Walking Away.