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

“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.”

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

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

“Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances”

“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 the individual so bri...”

“Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!”

“Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.”

“We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.”

“Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever ho...”

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”

“I have often wondered since at my own firmness. In that dreadful interview with my uncle I had felt, in the whirl and horror of my mind, on the very point of submitting, just as nervous people are ...”

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”

“Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least.”

“Don't expect too much from people who don't even have respect for themselves.”