I Was Too Weak To Defend, So

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.

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.

You Cannot Be A True Man Until You Learn To Obey.

As A General Principle You Should Not Force Young Men To Do Their Duty, But Let Them Do It Voluntarily And Thereby Develop Their Characters.

It Is Good That War Is So Horrible, Or We Might Grow To Like It.