A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts....

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

Respect is based on Friendship,and friendship is based on love and love is so accidental isn't it ?

Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles.

The education of a man ( or woman ) is never completed until he dies.

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

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

I am A man, not a sponge! If god wished a sponge to think, A SPONGE WOULD THINK!

If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.

I was too weak to defend, so I attacked

There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.

You cannot barter manhood for peace.