We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.

We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.

You cannot barter manhood for peace.

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.

I was too weak to defend, so I attacked

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

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

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

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

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....

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.

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.

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

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

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

It is good that war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of it.

I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true course; and I think so still. Controversy of all kinds will, in my opinion, only serve to continue excitement and passion, and will prevent the public mind from the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth.

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.

Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper.

I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.