“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.”

“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...”

“It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”