It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still

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.

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...

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend–or to keep one.

Lee assess a subordinate commander as “all lion; no fox.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

They seemed so united that I loved them as one person.” Lee wrote of his son and daughter-in-law on his daughter-in-law’s death.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.