Quotes by Daniel Hill

• Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.
• There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
• As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.
• But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.
• Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
• Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.
• Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.
• Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.
• Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
• Train our children to love God.
• Let our children be taught love love love.