Robert E. Lee

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.